AS/400 .vs. NT

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I buy a dumb terminal for $500, and that's what it costs me for years,
until
it breaks down or gets too faint to read.

I buy a PC for $700 or $800 and it costs me a lot more than that over
the
years.  I have to buy Office for it, I have to upgrade the OS, I have to
spend
time to get the right drivers for it, I have to go fix it when it
mysteriously
doesn't
work anymore, I have to set up maintenance on it since the users never
do,
I have to upgrade the memory, HD, CPU, etc, etc...

That $700/$800 PC costs a LOT more than a dumb tube.  True cost of
ownership on a PC is relatively high.

There are places, though, where a PC is required, where a dumb tube just

won't do.  Eventually, though, all our dumb tubes will be going PCs, and
at that
point I don't think we're going to be able to cope as a one person MIS
department anymore, bringing the cost of ownership even higher.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Alan Campin wrote:

> <SNIP>
> As to fairly expensive, you buy a PC workstation for $700.00 and
$800.00
> with a 64MB of memory, fast hard drive, good video and a 400 or 450
> processor and we buy refurbish to get even a better price. PC are
getting
> incredibly cheap.

<SNIP>




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